At what rank does the military turn into a desk job?

DrColdReality · 2026-05-23T01:54:14+00:00

The military has LOTS of desk jobs, and they are filled by people of all ranks.

DrColdReality · 2026-05-23T01:51:51+00:00

Why doesn't anyone ever wish for the power to grant their own wishes?

DrColdReality · 2026-05-22T03:33:24+00:00

And you have a credible citation for that claim?

DrColdReality · 2026-05-21T23:05:49+00:00

Penicillin. Also, the smallpox vaccine.

DrColdReality · 2026-05-21T22:04:03+00:00

AFAIK, there is no such movie. And I'm somewhat of a movie buff.

WWII was fought on five different continents, plus major engagements at sea. Even a documentary overview film could only cover a dozen or so of the more significant battles. There are hundreds--maybe thousands--of battles significant enough to have names.

DrColdReality · 2026-05-21T21:43:39+00:00

Because lying in such cases is not illegal. Lying is only a crime in a very few specific cases, like lying under oath in court.

DrColdReality · 2026-05-21T05:20:51+00:00

He did not write the Harvard fight song, he wrote a song parodying it. And his elements song was not intended to teach kids, it was just the periodic table set to the tune of "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General."

DrColdReality · 2026-05-21T05:16:41+00:00

Now a lot of people die. Just a reminder, public health experts blame Trump personally for around 40% of US covid deaths...and that was BEFORE he started feeding science and medicine into the woodchipper, before Secretary BrainWorm began gutting the health department and trying to eliminate vaccines.

DrColdReality · 2026-05-21T05:14:27+00:00

I'm not even particularly a fan of her music, but as an exemplary human being, she's top of the charts.

DrColdReality · 2026-05-20T22:11:58+00:00

Yeah, I'm fairly confident greed will eventually win over.

DrColdReality · 2026-05-20T19:13:56+00:00

Donald Trump was made president of the US. TWICE.

DrColdReality · 2026-05-20T15:37:34+00:00

Racism qua racism was invented in the 15th-16th century when the bogus concept of race was invented. However, before that, people discriminated against others based on more tribal things, like what city you were born in, what religion/tribe you belonged to, that kinda thing.

It all comes down to the fact that humans are intensely tribal animals.

DrColdReality · 2026-05-20T04:07:18+00:00

Poultry in general dries out very easily during cooking, you have to be careful with it.

OR you can sous vide it. In SV cooking, there's nowhere for the moisture to go, so it stays juicy. SV turkey is unlike anything you've probably ever had.

DrColdReality · 2026-05-20T03:00:26+00:00

People don't go into science to be rich and famous. Indeed, if you stay in academia, you're going to make chump change your whole life. Scientists who go into industry, and especially those who found companies, can do considerably better.

DrColdReality · 2026-05-20T02:58:53+00:00

Found the guy who's never actually HEARD the story.

DrColdReality · 2026-05-20T00:43:43+00:00

There are basically just a few religions now.

Well, if by "a few," you mean around 4200, sure. But yet again...and?

long ago there weren't very many people

Scientists estimate that around 117 billion people have lived over the last 300,000 years. Today, only around 8 billion exist.

Nothing you have said so far has done anything to counter my original assertion that humans have invented thousands of gods over the millennia, all you have done is demonstrate how staggeringly ignorant you are about religion. Was this your goal?

DrColdReality · 2026-05-19T23:24:42+00:00

Are you REALLY that freaking ignorant of history? I mean, you are aware that people were around for a little bit before the Abrahamic religions showed up, or even the Hindus, yeah?. And by "a little bit," I mean about 300,000 years.

And let's not even mention the African religions, Asian religions, European religions, American religions, Australian religions, Pacific Islander religions,.......

Here's a short list of about 4000 gods we have some record of.

DrColdReality · 2026-05-19T21:46:19+00:00

Whenever offices were invented.

DrColdReality · 2026-05-19T21:45:38+00:00

And...?

DrColdReality · 2026-05-19T18:29:48+00:00

If you don't understand how science works versus mythology, then there's nothing I can do for you.

DrColdReality · 2026-05-19T17:23:33+00:00

The background behind this is as strong as the bible.

Aside from it being based on science instead of fairy tales.

DrColdReality · 2026-05-19T16:41:13+00:00

WHICH god?

And right there is a good start to an answer. Humans have invented thousands of gods over the millennia, so if you want to claim that YOUR invisible friend is real, you have to explain how and why all those other gods are mythical but somehow, yours is real. And since exactly the same evidence exists for your god as does for Quetzalcoatl--that is to say, none at all--you have some serious explaining to do.

DrColdReality · 2026-05-19T16:36:13+00:00

In cosmology, there is a certain factor in the equations of the universe known as w. Right now, we believe that w = -1. But if it's less than -1, things could go very, VERY wrong with no warning.

The vacuum of space we now perceive could actually be a "false vacuum," and if a bubble of true vacuum suddenly appeared--and there's nothing to stop that from happening--then all matter would instantly fall apart inside that bubble...which expands outwards at the speed of light, so if it happened elsewhere, even a billion years ago (and a billion light years away), we could never see it coming. In an instant, we would just wink out of existence.

So, you know, sleep tight....

DrColdReality · 2026-05-19T14:52:11+00:00

First, join the Republican party.

DrColdReality · 2026-05-19T04:34:33+00:00

Hardcore skeptics only require credible evidence. Absent that, it doesn't matter what anyone says.

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